Good point that the violence along the border was often intensely personal and social. Hernández's sources provide many such accounts. I asked this question elsewhere here on Medium today, but do you think that these stories overemphasize the role of violence along the border? Why or why not?

Brandon Morgan
Brandon Morgan

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Associate Dean, History Instructor, & researcher of the Borderlands, U.S. West, & Modern Mexico. I just published a book about violence and the rural border.

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